Nothing Has Happened To You by Rory Say - MARCH 29th
Nothing Has Happened to You is a collection of short stories where the ordinary twists into the uncanny and the familiar becomes strange. Memory, family, and grief blur with phantoms that may or may not exist, and the smallest moments—opening a door, telling a story, looking into the dark—carry the weight of dread.
A young girl confides in a silent companion no one else can see, who grows smaller each time he returns. A lover reveals she has been dead for years and will soon be forgotten. A tenant discovers his basement suite may not exist at all, except as an echo of guilt. Elsewhere, lost children, haunted objects, and voices from the grave stir quietly at the edges of daily life.
Rory Say, whose work has appeared in Weird Horror, Dark Recesses, Metastellar, The NoSleep Podcast, Tales to Terrify and more, writes with precision, lyricism, and an unshakable sense of unease. Each tale is self-contained, yet together they form a world where nothing is certain, and dread lingers long after the last page.
CanadaHeavy
“Undertow. Caught in something that’s pulling him under, deeper and deeper into the dark.” A poignant tale of two estranged brothers reconnecting. After a lifetime of trauma and strange occurrences, Jamie and Eric catch up in a bar in Hawaii. The following events will break their bond further, or forge it into something stronger; a body, a boat, and an unbelievable cosmic encounter alter both their lives. I really, really enjoyed the author’s writing and descriptive style. There were some seriously creepy moments and the whole boat foray evoked a sense of dread for me.
United KingdomNot Eating Fish For A While
It starts out with such a raw and real representation of what would happen in that situation and then it all just goes sideways. I read this in two separate sittings and there was not one part where it lagged. I was either what um what or just oof the whole time. I couldn’t really even categorise what genre this book would be. There’s so many different aspects all thrown together but one thing I do know is I will not be eating any fish for a long time. Those descriptions will haunt me. There was sadness and deep feeling in the writing but also weirdness and gore. This was a nice all rounder.